Publisher's Description

Optimize your PC by deploying Officer Pete and his minions to find and remove evil Grime, such as trialware, toolbars, and spyware. This is different than the optimization software you've used before -- avast! GrimeFighter sedates your PC first so that it can work without interference from malware that might be buried deep in your system. It can also detect hardware components in danger of possible failure, so you can prepare and protect your data.

Gives the impression that it wiped out essential items for computer to function properly. My computer is only 3 years old and now it acts like something from the Flintstones. Thanks Avast!
P.S. I know how to use computers so it's not for lack of skill or experience that this has happened.

1) "30 day money back guarantee" is FALSE ADVERTISING; I realised after buying and requesting a refund three times before the 30 days just ran out that they only refund if it's broken...the terms are not made obvious to purchasers and the "guarantee" on their front page is dishonest.

2) You have no control over what it does to your computer. You can't even see the scan of what it's about to do. And considering that Avast blocks some of my legitimate software, and that the business software I use requires very specific computer settings, I don't want it just whacking away at my computer's settings and start-up programs without even telling me what's going on. Just get CCleaner, it does well enough.

Summary

Dishonest company and terrible product, unless you don't need or want any control over changes to your computer.

Didn't clean up enough and put back fingerprint roll-on that I had disabled before, so I had to figure out how to disable it again. Also killed some of the icons on my desktop that I need.

Summary

I hope Avast can improve this program so that it functions as expected. It took a very long time, maybe over two hours the first and then again the second time I used it. It said it found a lot of "grime," so I was expecting it to get past the sluggish performance and load my desktop and get me into production quickly after a restart, but it really did very little to improve performance or start-up speed, and it made some changes I didn't like. The second time I ran it, I discovered that you can select what changes to accept or decline. I had not realized that the first time.

Also, I'm not understanding why I had to even run it a second time. That company which advertises on TV all the time that it fixes your PC promises to do all the same things, but I never bought into that and figured that Avast would do a better job.

My PC is still running very sluggish and when I do a restart it still takes a long time for the desktop to come up and for the icons for Avast and my internet connection to load up.

As I used to troubleshoot PC systems professionally, before M$$ hid all the ini files and such so we could make our own repairs, not being able to get my PC running smoothly or quickly really frustrates me. I think Avast has more work to do on this program before it is truly effective.

But, I have to say, the little Minions are very amusing, so the program has good entertainment value.

I've scanned it with Avast, Malwarebytes, Ccleaner, and now Grime Fighters and there is still some kind of Muldavian Crud in there that is playing Hide and Seek. GRRRRRR!!

I HATE the Win 8 OS and have it on a new computer, which is shut down and shoved under a chair. I want my good XP Pro sp3 back again.

I use Avast (free) for an antivirus program. It kept advertising Avast Grimefinder, and the free option found "N" problems it promised to fix. For some reason I actually shelled out dollars for out. It actually sped up my boot time considerably. BTW it will "auto clean" after running on startup in Linux, but, it will also tell you what it found. All the value seems to be in the first run. When I ran it at 30 and 60 days, it found very very little new. As far as actually "running" - no problem.

Cons

Can't say if it is better than other options that might be true freeware or cheaper.

Summary

Paying for it didn't drive me crazy and it actually worked, especially the first time.

With some apps for cleaning I could barely operate them because I didn't understand what they wanted from me, but grimefighter just goes when I need it to. First time I ran it, it cleaned up about 4 GB of trash and now my computer is faster.

Thanks for the comment Diverdeb. I also have the same kind of computer and since MS stopped supporting my XP pro operating system, all of a sudden it runs like a horse and carriage which has been starved to death. I figured MS was sending me trolls to force me to upgrade to Windows 8, which I hate and have on another computer, which is turned off and stored away due to my dislike of the operating system.

The Grime notice popped up on my computer and had me both mystified and a little ticked off since I thought Avast was supposed to keep me safe from of those invaders. I mean the Avast that I pay for every year, not the free one.

very easy to installeasy to useits really for non IT and non technical people.nice graphics

Cons

take some time to do its job, so you can make yourself a nice coffee :-)can be cheaperit needs to reboot our computer.

Summary

We have some older computers in the family as well as some new ones, all running Windows from Windows XP to Windows 7.It seems to me they now run faster than before and the XP one with the small disk has a significant more disk space now.

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